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Schedule at a Glance |
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Wednesday, March 11,
2009 |
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9:00
am - 3:00 pm |
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Working
Group:
Implementation of the Yogyakarta
Principles,
Location: UCLA School
of Law, Room 2448 |
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12:00
pm - 1:00 pm |
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Lunch Break |
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1:00
pm - 3:00 pm |
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Working
Group:
Implementation of the Yogyakarta
Principles (cont.)
Location: UCLA School
of Law, Room 2448 |
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3:00
pm - 5:00 pm |
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Working
Group: Strategies for Advancing the
Rights of Same-Sex Couples,
Location: UCLA School of Law,
Room 2448 |
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*The Opening Plenary Event is Free
and Open to the Public - Please visit
the Registration Page to RSVP (space is
limited):
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7:00 pm -
9:00 pm |
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Opening
Plenary: LGBT Rights In Latin America,
followed by Desert Reception, Hosted by
the City of West Hollywood
Location:
Pacific Design Center, Green Building, Silver Screen Theater,
8687 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood
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Welcome: |
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Councilmember John J. Duran
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Councilmember John Heilman,
City of West Hollywood |
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Panelists: |
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Karen Atala Riffo,
Jueza de Garantía,
Santiago, Chile
Tatiana
Cordero,
Executive Director, Corporación
Promoción de la Mujer/Taller de
Comunicación Mujer, Human Rights
Lawyer, Ecuador
Germán Rincón
Perfetti,
Human Rights Lawyer,
Colombia
Jorge Saavedra MD,
Chief of Global Affairs, AIDS
Healthcare Foundation (AHF), Amsterdam |
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Moderator: |
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Marcelo Ernesto Ferreyra,
Program Coordinator, Latin America and
the Caribbean, International Gay and
Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) |
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9:30 pm |
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Out in
West Hollywood Cocktail Party,
Sponsored by
Here Lounge
Location:
Here Lounge, 696 N. Robertson Boulevard, West Hollywood |
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Thursday, March
12, 2009 |
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9:00 am-
10:20 am |
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Working
Group: Implementation of the
Yogyakarta Principles
(cont.)
Location: UCLA School
of Law, Room 2448 |
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Concurrent Sessions I |
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Latin American Track - Brazil
Location: UCLA School of Law,
Room 1457
Regional Track
- Coming to
America: LGBT Travel, Immigration, &
Asylum
Location: UCLA School of Law,
Room 1337
Global Track
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Families Redefined: Kinship Groups that
Deserve Benefits
Location: UCLA School of Law,
Room 2326 |
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10:40 am-
12:00 pm |
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Working
Group: Implementation of the
Yogyakarta Principles
(cont.)
Location: UCLA School
of Law, Room 2448 |
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Concurrent Sessions II |
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Latin American Track -
Chile & Peru
Location: UCLA School of Law,
Room 1337
Regional Track
- LGBT
Jurisprudence of the European Court of
Justice & the European Court of Human
Rights
Location: UCLA School of Law,
Room 1457
Issue Track -
Safe Schools for LGBT Students &
Teachers
Location: UCLA School of Law,
Room 2326 |
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12:30 pm -
1:45 pm |
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Lunch
Plenary Panel: Human Rights & Global
Health: LGBT Equality & the Fight
Against HIV/AIDS
Location: UCLA School of Law,
Room 1347 |
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Panelists: |
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Stef Beral PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow,
Center for Public Health and Human
Rights, Bloomberg School of Public
Health, The Johns Hopkins University
Carlos Caceres, MD PhD, Professor and
Vice Dean, School of Public Health,
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia,
Lima, Peru
Scott Long, Director, Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Rights
Division, Human Rights Watch
Dean Peacock, Co-founder &
Co-director, Sonke Gender Justice
Network, South Africa
Jorge
Saavedra, Chief of Global Affairs, AIDS
Healthcare Foundation (AHF), Amsterdam |
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Moderator: |
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Thomas J.
Coates, Director, UCLA Program in
Global Health, Michael & Sue Steinberg
Endowed Professor of Global AIDS
Research, Division of Infectious
Diseases, UCLA |
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2:00 pm - 3:15 pm |
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Concurrent Sessions III |
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Latin American Track -
LGBT Rights in Argentina
Global Track -
Global
Perspectives on Transgender Rights
Issue Track -
Stayin' Alive: Same Sex
Pensions on
Three Continents
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3:30 pm -
4:30 pm |
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Working Group
Report Out: Implementation of the
Yogyakarta Principles |
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4:45 pm -
6:15 pm |
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Afternoon
Plenary: International LGBT Human
Rights |
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Panelists: |
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Mauro Cabral, Professor, National University
of Córdoba, Argentina
Sonia Corrêa, Research Associate,
Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA), Co-Chair, Sexuality Policy Watch
Alice Miller, Lecturer in Residence;
Senior Fellow, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social
Justice, UC Berkeley School of Law
Hari Phuyal,
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
Program Office, Nepal
Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Research Associate,
Waseda University, Japan |
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Moderator: |
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Douglas Sanders, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of
Law, University of British Colombia, Vancouver,
Canada, LL.M. Professor, Chulalongkorn
University |
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Friday, March 13,
2009 |
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9:00 am -
10:20 am |
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Working
Group: Strategies for Advancing the
Rights of Same-Sex Couples (cont.) |
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Concurrent Sessions IV |
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Latin American Track -
The Carribean, Cuba, & Puerto Rico
Regional Track - LGBT
Rights in North America
Issue Track -
The Rights of Transgender and Intersex
People |
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10:40 am-
12:00 pm |
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Working
Group: Strategies for Advancing the
Rights of Same-Sex Couples (cont.) |
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Concurrent Sessions V |
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Latin American Track -
Trans-Films (this panel will conclude
at 12:10 pm)
Regional Track - LGBT
Rights in Africa
Global Track - Universal
Rights v. National Cultures
Issue Track -
Out at Work: Employment Discrimination
Against LGBT People |
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12:00 pm -
1:00 pm |
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Lunch
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*The Friday Afternoon Schedule
(1-6:30PM) is Free
and Open to the Public - Please visit
the Registration Page to RSVP (space is
limited):
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1:00 pm -
2:30 pm |
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Plenary: Supreme Court Perspectives
on LGBT Rights |
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Panelists: |
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Justice
Bala Ram KC,
Supreme Court of Nepal
Justice Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni, Supreme Court of Argentina
Justice Michael Donald Kirby,
High Court of Australia
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Moderator: |
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Máximo Langer,
Professor of
Law, UCLA School of Law |
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3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm |
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Concurrent Sessions VI |
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Latin American Track -
Regional Efforts to Advance LGBT
Rights |
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Regional Track - 5th
Annual Sexual Orientation and Gender
Identity Moot Court Competition: Don't
Ask, Don't Tell
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Global Track - Repealing
Sodomy Laws in Former British Colonies
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5:00 pm -
6:30 pm |
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Plenary: National Leaders: What
National Governments Are Doing to
Advance LGBT Rights |
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Panelists: |
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Paulo Biagi, Director, Brazil
Without Homophobia, Secretary of State
for Human Rights
Boris
Dittrich, Former Member Parliament, the Netherlands, Advocacy
Director, LBGT Rights Program, Human
Rights Watch
Michael
Guest, Former U.S. Ambassador to
Romania, Senior Advisor, Council for
Global Equality
María José Lubertino,
President, Instituto Nacional contra la
Discriminación, la Xenophobia y el
Racismo (INADI), Argentina |
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Moderator: |
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Brad
Sears, Executive Director, The
Williams Institute |
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6:30 pm -
9:00 pm |
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Williams
Institute Annual Gala Reception and
Awards Ceremony
honoring the Institute
for the Study of Human Resources,
presentation of the ILGLaw Ulrichs
Awards, and
Announcement of the Moot Court Winners,
Hugh & Hazel
Darling Law
Library, UCLA School of Law |
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Saturday, March
14, 2009 |
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9:00 am -
10:20 am |
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Concurrent Sessions VII |
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Latin American Track -
Columbia
Regional Track - LGBT
Rights in Eastern Europe: Belarus,
Hungary & Poland
Global Track - Comparative
Approaches to Couples Rights
Issue Track -
Combating Stigma, Preventing HIV, & MSM
Populations |
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10:40 am-
12:00 pm |
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Concurrent Sessions VIII |
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Latin American Track -
Bolivia, Nicarauga, & Venezuela
Regional Track - LGBT
Rights in Asia
Global Track - The Law of
Small Change in the New World
Issue Track -
Decriminalizing Queer Sexuality |
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12:20 pm -
1:50 pm |
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ILGLaw Luncheon & Awards Ceremony |
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Plenary: California Marriage |
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Panelists: |
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Geoff Kors, Executive Director,
Equality California
Shannon Price Minter,
Legal Director, National Center for
Lesbian Rights
Russell K. Robinson,
Acting Professor of Law, UCLA School of
Law
Saul Sarabia, Lecturer in
Law & Administrative Director, UCLA
School of Law - Critical Race Studies
Program
Karin Wang, Vice-President of Programs,
Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern
California, Steering Committee,
API Equality-LA |
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Moderator: |
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Cheryl I . Harris, Professor of
Law, UCLA School of Law |
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2:00 pm -
2:45 pm |
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Working
Group Report Out: Strategies for
Advancing the Rights of Same-Sex Couples
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2:45 pm - 3:30 pm |
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Closing Remarks: |
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Gloria Careaga-Perez, Faculty of
Psychology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),
Co-coordinator, El Closet de Sor Juana
Paula Ettelbrick, Executive Director,
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
(IGLHRC) |
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4:00 pm |
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Closing Celebration, Eleven,
Upstairs Lounge, West Hollywood
Sponsored by West Hollywood Marketing &
Visitors Bureau |
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